Teachers confronted the police, entered the hall of the Legislature and went to the governor’s house

Teachers protesting at the Misiones Legislature they knocked down the fences that the Government welded around the building, entered the hall and then headed to the in front of the governor’s house Hugo Passalacqua, where riots continue with with Infantry and Gendarmerie agents. The protesters threw projectiles at the police guarding the place, and they responded with pepper spray.

The protest was called for 6 p.m. by the Front of Education Workers in Struggle (FTEL) and 50 minutes later the incidents began, which moved to the interior of the building. Inside they began to fly projectiles on one side, and pepper spray on the other.

As The Misiones Police were overwhelmed Due to the situation, the Gendarmerie had to go to provide support. In the protest there were teachers union members from Suteba Tigre, Neuquén and people from the left.

Since this morning, the employees of the Provincial Legislature and the Misiones Police began the installation of a triple fence at the access door. Two Misiones Police fire engines were already installed on the side streets.

An employee of the Legislature admitted to Clarion which is the first time in three decades that police fences are welded with plates and others screwed to the floor to prevent them from being displaced.

The extreme security measures They were adopted by the march of FTEL, at 6:00 p.m., coinciding with the beginning of the sessions. Public Health employees and also some of the police officers camping in front of the Command were expected to join this demonstration.

The overflow of the protesters occurred in the Legislaturewhere They entered the hall after knocking down fences and confronted the police, who responded with pepper spray. The protest then continued in front of Governor Passalacqua’s house, where tension with security forces persists.

The government of Misiones reopened negotiations with the police who have been camping since last Friday in front of the Posadas Radio Command, but the agents rejected the 30% offered, so they will continue to demand better salaries. He also offered a clean slate with the consequences of the protest. There was no agreement.

“We have to be respectful, if the colleagues decided that (reject the proposal) we have to accompany. The other points of the meeting were the amnesty of police personnel, roll back the sanctions and the administrative part. If this 30% amount was accepted, it would be fixed,” delegate Ramón Amarilla reported at a press conference, after the decision of the police assembly.

And he added: “We are going to communicate with the Government to tell them that we are not going to accept that 30%. The staff came here with hope, “That amount is ridiculous.”

Police and teachers who camped on Uruguay Avenue demanding a 100% salary increase had to endure a brief wind storm which destroyed several gazebos. Anticipating the arrival of rain, at the campsite they covered the tents with polyethylene to avoid getting soaked. Early in the morning, the police reactivated the stoves and were excited to learn of the Government’s decision to reopen negotiation channels.

Half morning, herbal producers They also held their protest in Posadas. Although some were at the police camp, the majority went to the headquarters of the National Yerba Mate Institute to claim the cessation of the import of weed from Brazil and Paraguay; and that the industrialists pay them in cash $370 per kilo of raw material. In recent weeks, as a result of the entry of foreign grass and an extraordinary production of green leaves, the price plummeted to $310 per kilo in some areas.

This Friday morning It will be a week since the camp in front of the Radioelectric Command. More than 30 patrol cars and a force pumper remain parked in that place. Although the representatives made those cell phones available to the Headquarters at the request of a prosecutor, they never went to look for them.

In addition to a strong salary increase, police officers They ask to reverse with transfers and administrative sanctionsand an amnesty is agreed for all active Police and Penitentiary Service personnel who joined the camp.

The protest began last week largely with presence of retirees from the forcebut as the days went by the camp became populated with officers and agents on duty, many of them arriving from the interior of the province.

A few hours after the camp began, the Government asked the Ministry of Security to form a a crisis committee to allow the landing of federal forces. On Sunday, agents from the Prefecture, Federal Police and Gendarmerie wanted to isolate the protesters with a human cordon, but everything ended in a scuffle and the subsequent withdrawal of federal troops.